Five Themes of Geography
Washington, D.C. is 10 miles southeast of Rockville.
What is relative location?
Ancient Rome's society was separated mainly into these two groups of people.
Who are plebeians and patricians?
His assassination led to an outbreak of civil war.
Who is Julius Caesar?
Christianity has its roots (or developed out of) this religion.
What is Judaism?
He thought the Roman Empire had become too large for one man to govern effectively, so he divided it in two.
Who is Diocletian?
Landforms, climate, vegetation, and wildlife.
What are physical features of place?
Tribunes, who represented the interests of the plebeians, gained this power that allowed them to reject laws passed by the Senate.
What is veto?
This Roman innovation helped transport water from rural areas to cities.
What are aqueducts?
Christians faced this harsh treatment from the Romans for over 200 years.
What is persecution?
Constantinople became a major hub of trade as it was located between these two continents.
What is Europe and Asia?
Deforestation would fall under this theme.
What is human-environment interaction (HEI)?
Series of three conflicts fought between Rome and Carthage over control of the Mediterranean.
What are the Punic Wars?
What is the Colosseum?
This emperor legalized Christianity in the Roman Empire after seeing the cross in a dream.
Who is Constantine?
The split of the Church in the east and west in 1054.
The theme of movement explores how these three things move from place to place.
What are people, goods, and ideas?
The poor people of Rome gained more power when this set of laws was written down.
What are the Twelve Tables?
Roman emperors famously provided people with this to distract them from their daily problems and otherwise poor quality of life.
What are "bread and circuses"?
This emperor made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire.
Who is Theodosius?
This emperor had his advisors simplify the old Roman Empire's laws--many of which had become far too contradictory and outdated.
Who is Justinian?
These two things are often used to find absolute location.
What are latitude and longitude?
The influx of slaves during the Roman Republic's expansion caused this for many poor Romans.
What is unemployment?
Germanic tribes, some of whom were fleeing this group, raided the empire's weakening borders, eventually toppling the city of Rome in 476 C.E.
Who are the Huns?
To allow someone to practice their beliefs even though they may not agree with your own is called this.
What is tolerance?
Theodora convinced her husband to stay rather than flee when these broke out in the city of Constantinople.
What are the Nika Riots?